Gordon Hanson

Expertise

Professor Hanson is an authority on international migration, international trade, and foreign investment.

Media

• Room for Debate:  The Competition for Low-Wage Jobs, New York Times, March 18, 2009.

• The Costs of Immigration, BlogTalkRadio, August 2008, panel discussion with Mike Farrell.

• The Body Politic: Immigration 2008, UCSD TV, July 2008, panel discussion with Wayne Corneilius.

• "Dodging the Guest Worker Bullet," The Wall Street Journal, July 5, 2007, Opinion-Editorial, p. A15.

• "Free Markets Need Free People," The Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2007, Opinion-Editorial, p. A19.

Affiliations

Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Co-Editor, Journal of Development Economics
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Senior Fellow, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development
Advisory Committee, Institute for International Economics
Member, Board of Directors, Washington Office on Latin America
Research Fellow, IZA

Editorial Boards: 
    American Economic Journal:  Applied Economics
    Journal of Economic Literature
    North American Journal of Economics and Finance
    Review of Economics and Statistics
    B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis and Policy
    Journal of Economic Geography

Research Interests

Recent Working Papers:

• "Volatility due to Outsourcing:  Theory and Evidence," January 2009, with Paul Bergin and Robert Feenstra.

• "International Migration and Development," Commission on Growth and Development, Working Paper No. 42, December 2008.

• "Testing the Melitz Model: An Application to US Motion Picture Exports," October 2008, with Chong Xiang.

• "The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor," October 2008.

• "Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants," July 2008, with Jeff Grogger.

• "Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives: A Reappraisal," March 2008, with George Borjas and Jeff Grogger.


Data Sets:

• Apprehensions and enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico border by the U.S. Border Partrol, 1963-2004.

• Foreign outsourcing by U.S. manufacturing industries, 1979-1990.

Recent Publications

• "Offshoring and Volatility: Evidence from Mexico's Maquiladora Industry," American Economic Review, forthcoming, with Paul Bergin and Robert Feenstra.

• "The Demography of Mexican Migration to the US," American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming, with Craig McIntosh.

• "Immigration and the Economic Status of African-American Men," Economica, forthcoming, with George Borjas and Jeff Grogger.

• "The Great Mexican Emigration," Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming, with Craig McIntosh.

• "China and the Manufacturing Exports of Other Developing Countries," in Robert Feenstra and Shang Jin Wei, eds., China’s Growing Role in World Trade, Chicago:  University of Chicago Press and the NBER, forthcoming, with Raymond Robertson.

• "International Trade in Motion Picture Services," in Matthew Slaughter and Marshall Reinsdorf, eds., International Flows of Invisibles: Trade in Services and Intangibles in the Era of Globalization, Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, with Chong Xiang.

• "Individual Preferences over High-Skilled Immigration in the United States," in Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon Hanson, eds., Skilled Immigration Today:  Problems, Prospects, and Policies, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, with Kenneth Scheve and Matthew Slaughter.

• "Local Public Finance and Individual Preferences over Globalization Strategies," Economics and Politics, 19(2007): 1-33, with Kenneth Scheve and Matthew Slaughter.

• "Emigration, Remittances, and Labor Force Participation in Mexico," Integration and Trade Journal, 27(2007): 73-103.

• "The Economic Logic of Illegal Immigration," Council Special Report No. 26, Council on Foreign Relations, April 2007.

• "Globalization, Labor Income, and Poverty in Mexico," in Ann Harrison, ed., Globalization and Poverty, Chicago: University of Chicago Press and the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007, 417-456.

• "Emigration, Labor Supply and Earnings in Mexico," in George Borjas, ed., Mexican Immigration, Chicago: University of Chicago Press and the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007, 289-328.

• "Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States," Journal of Economic Literature, December 44(2006): 869-924.

• "Vertical Production Networks in Multinational Firms," Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2005: 664-678, with Raymond Mataloni and Matthew Slaughter.

• "Market Potential, Increasing Returns, and Geographic Concentration," Journal of International Economies, September 2005, 67(1): 1-24.

• "Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China: Estimating the Property Rights Theory of the Firm," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2005, 120(2): 729-762, with Robert Feenstra.  Appendix.

• "International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States," Journal of Political Economy, April 2005, 113(2): 239-281, with Daniel Chiquiar.

• Why Does Immigration Divide America? Public Finance and Political Opposition to Open Borders, Washington DC: Institute for International Economics, 2005.

• "Challenges for US Immigration Policy," in C. Fred Bergsten, ed., The United States and the World Economy: Foreign Economic Policy for the Next Decade, Washington DC: Institute of International Economics, 2005, 343-372.

• "The Home Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns," American Economic Review, September 2004, 94: 1108-1129, with Chong Xiang.

• "Intermediaries in Entrepôt Trade: Hong Kong Re-Exports of Chinese Goods," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 13(2004): 3-36, with Robert Feenstra.

• "Technology, Trade, and Adjustment to Immigration in Israel," European Economic Review, 48(2004): 403-428, with Matthew Slaughter and Neil Gandal.

• "What Has Happened to Wages in Mexico since NAFTA?" in Toni Estevadeordal, Dani Rodrick, Alan Taylor, Andres Velasco, eds., FTAA and Beyond: Prospects for Integration in the Americas, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

IRCO 403 International Economics

Course Description:

This course examines the theory and mechanics of international economics. Topics covered include real trade theory, international movements of capital, the effects of trade and capital flows on domestic economies, and policies toward trade and foreign investment.  Syllabus.

IRGN 435 Topics in International Trade

Course Description:

This course develops new analytical models of international trade and examines their relevance for trade policy. Topics include the gravity model of trade, multinational enterprises and firms strategies for expansion aborad, international migration, and the global financial crisis.  Syllabus.

ECON 247 Empirical International Trade

Course Description:

This is the third course in the graduate international economics sequence in the Department of Economics.  We will strive to achieve a balance between theory, empirical literature, and current work on international trade.  Syllabus.